EU to blacklist 86 Belarus officials and companies
LUXEMBOURG (REUTERS) – The European Union will on Monday (June 21) impose travel bans and asset freezes on 86 Belarusian individuals and companies, [...]
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Analysis: Global funds feel the heat over Belarus 'blood' bonds
LONDON (Reuters) – When Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko intensified his crackdown on protesters in February, activists turned their attention to one of the [...]
US announces sanctions on Belarus over journalist's detention
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The Biden administration announced it would re-impose sanctions against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises and is developing additional penalties to target [...]
Friend says detained journalist broke his own rule: Never fly over Belarus
WARSAW/VILNIUS (REUTERS) – Roman Protasevich, the Belarusian journalist jailed after his plane was forced to land on Sunday, had decided to avoid flying [...]
Kremlin dismisses notion of alleged Russian involvement in Belarus plane incident
Airport personnel and security forces are seen on the tarmac in front of a Ryanair flight which was forced to land in Minsk, [...]
Thats a hostage video Belarusan exile claims journalist tortured after plane arrest
Roman Protasevich 'may have been tortured' says expert When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. [...]
UK airlines told to avoid Belarus after Ryanair flight was 'hijacked'
UK airlines are being told to stay away from Belarusian airspace after a journalist’s plane was ‘hijacked’ and he was arrested in Minsk [...]
EU considers shunning Belarusian airspace over forced landing
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – The European Union is considering shunning Belarus’s airspace and banning national carrier Belavia from EU airports after Belarusian authorities scrambled [...]
Who Is Roman Protasevich, the Captive Journalist in Belarus?
It has all of the elements of a Jason Bourne plot: A commercial flight carrying a dissident journalist is intercepted by a MiG-29 [...]
Belarus Forces Down Plane to Seize Dissident; Europe Sees ‘State Hijacking’
MOSCOW — The strongman president of Belarus sent a fighter jet to intercept a European airliner traveling through the country’s airspace on Sunday [...]